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Made for TV Ewok Movies to be Released on DVD
thebus writes "I just wanted to let you know that I got an email from Amazon today informing me that two of the greatest made for TV movies of all time will be coming out on one DVD on Nov. 23rd 2004. Prepare yourself for the Star Wars Ewok Adventures - Caravan of Courage and The Battle for Endor."
Umm... You guys don't get many dates, do you? :)
I demand festive Chewbacca, and animated Boba Fett!
Just what I wanted. (Disclaimer: I haven't seen these particular movies, so perhaps they are better than I'm guessing based on ROTJ.)
I always viewed Ewoks as the first sign of the trend that eventually peaked with one Jar-Jar Binks. I heard somewhere Endor was originally supposed to be full of Wookies - what happened to that?? That would have worked. Instead we had teddy bears fighting stormtroopers in armor with rocks! (BTY, I nominate stormtrooper armor for the Most Useless Armor Ever, based mostly on the Ewok battle.)
Thank goodness for Timothy Zahn. Without him I think I would have abandoned Star Wars.
"I object to doing things that computers can do." -- Olin Shivers, lispers.org
This is a may be considered a little offtopic, but I lost some admiration for Ewoks after they took the Ewok song out of the new editions Return of the Jedi. WHY LUCAS? WHY??
Technically, they wouldn't be cannibalistic unless they ate other Ewoks. The Ewok haters would probably love to see that.
I've got a mind like a steel trap - it's got an animal's foot stuck in it.
Do not say these are better film than Master Ninja 1 & 2 starring Timothy Van Patten and Lee Van Cleef..... "Van^2", as I like to call them.
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If you didn't, I think you're at least right in calling Star Wars populist
Star Wars is NOT populist. How could anyone be so wrong?
Star Wars is elitist. It describes a universe inhabited by virtuous royalty, where a few special people ("Jedi") have the inborn power to shape interstellar empires. It's all about genes and destiny above effort and self-determination.
Star Trek- now there's a populist space-opera franchise.
Yes, this argument is true from an anthropological standpoint, but for fantasy/sci-fi filmmaking it doesn't work. In these genres, cultures within a species are usually merged into an archetype (or stereotype, if you will). The Empire: white homo-sapiens with British accents, Hutts: gangsters and criminals, Jawas: scavengers. SW isn't the only franchise that's guilty of this. Look at Star Trek; Klingons, Romulans, Vulcans - they have virtually no cultural diversity shown within their ranks. They all revolve around a common racial theme. Even Tolkien, as brilliant and diverse as his world was, found himself doing the same with his races. Dwarves were gruff, short tempered and loved living underground. Elves were stoic and mystical. Orcs were feral and vicious. Only when you got to the humans did you see any real cultural diversity.
Imagine if Lucas had done as you suggest. Would the Alliance have allied themselves with the Wookiees armed with spears and rocks, or would they have made a call to Chewie's friends on the other side of the planet to send over some Ion cannons and thermal detonators??
Xenon, where's my money? -Borno